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The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack in Barcelona that killed 13 and left 100 injured after a van was driven into a crowd of people. Early Friday, police killed five suspects engaged in a suspected related attack in a seaside town

America's diplomatic and defense chiefs sought to reinforce the threat of possible U.S. military action against North Korea after President Donald Trump's top strategist essentially called the commander-in-chief's warnings a bluff

Approximately 350 people have been confirmed killed and 600 more remain missing from the disaster in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown early Monday. With more rain forecast for the coming week, further mudslides are a threat

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More than a decade after the infamous disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old from Alabama who was vacationing in Aruba, her father may have broken the case wide open after discovering human remains

In a long-term study of the latest treatment for peanut allergy, scientists in Australia report that an immune-based therapy helped children allergic to peanuts eat them without reactions for four years

Hours after a deadly terror attack in Barcelona, President Trump suggested that Islamic terrorists should be executed with bullets soaked in pig's blood, praising a discredited story of a 20th-century atrocity

President Donald Trump doubled down on opposing the removal of Confederate statues and monuments, making clear he has no intention of backing down amid widespread criticism over his response to racially-charged violence in Charlottesville

A new lawsuit claims that "not one drop" of the water complies with the Food and Drug Administration's definition of what constitutes spring water, and instead is ground water. The lawsuit seeks at least $5 million in damages for false advertising

The captain of a Navy warship that lost seven sailors in a collision with a commercial container ship in June will be relieved of command and nearly a dozen others face punishment, the Navy's second-ranking admiral said Thursday

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